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As the hope of finding the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane fades, a potential lead arises in the form of a sighting of a low-flying jumbo jet over the tropical islands of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

Local IT manager Ahmed Shiyaam, 34, told the Weekend Australian: ‘I’m very sure of what I saw on a very clear and bright day, and what I saw was not normal- the plane was very big, and low.

I did not know until later that other people saw it too. I don’t know if it’s the Malaysia plane.’